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Feuille, P. Chandler, Timothy David 2011-05-07T11:55:09Z 2011-05-07T11:55:09Z 10000-01-01 1991 The transfer of government services to the private sector, or privatization as it is generally called, has received considerable attention in recent years. However, few attempts have been made to investigate the issue from a labor relations perspective. This dissertation attempts to alleviate this oversight by examining (1) the role of public sector unions in municipal decisions to contract out sanitation collection, and (2) the impact of sanitation contracting on sanitation workers' wages. Results indicate that the impact of public sanitation unions on sanitation contracting decisions depends upon their relations with city management. Sanitation contracting is less likely to occur if there is a public sanitation union present in the municipality which has cooperative relations with city management and more likely to occur if there is a public sanitation union present which has confrontational relations with city management. Further, results indicate that the higher the probability of a municipality considering contracting out, the less effective the sanitation union is at increasing sanitation workers' wages. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T11:55:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9136565.pdf: 7869644 bytes, checksum: 12d182596e9237519de3b914a715aabf (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:34:16Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:13:01-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9136565 (UMI)AAI9136565 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19042 eng Copyright 1991 Chandler, Timothy David Economics Political Science Industrial and Labor Relations Labor Public Administration Sociology Public sector unions and the privatization of municipal services text Labor and Employment Relations Labor and Employment Relations University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.